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Friday, 15 April 2016

4 Great situations for #networkmarketing and a useful check-list

“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about”

so Oscar Wilde, the playwright, is reputed to have said.

It is not such a bad maxim for a networking entrepreneur.

Networking is an increasingly popular method of new business generation through priming the likelihood of people talking about you and your company through introductions, referrals, recommendations and word of mouth advertising.

Networking provides you with an channel through which you
can publicise yourself and your business by personal communication with as
broad a selection of individuals as possible.

The more people talk about you and what you offer, the more
business you are likely to pick up through referral and contacts.

2. Business events which are organised for a
different specific purpose but as a sideline provide a networking opportunity.
e.g. trade exhibitions

3. Social, family and leisure events where some of
the people you meet are potential prospects to give business or recommend you
to people who they know. ( suspects) e.g. parties, sports clubs, pubs, Round
Table

4 .Ad hoc spontaneous contacts that by pure chance
may be able to connect you with business opportunities e.g. near seat neighbour
on a train, plan etc. ex –school friend on Friends united website.

Networking Objectives

To win business

To collect details of people who may give you
business or refer to others who may give you business ( so that you can follow
them up)

To give these people details of you, your
company and your offer so they can pro-actively contact you.

To create a positive and accurate impression of
what benefits people can achieve by working with you.

To get yourself and/or your business remembered
so that you will come to mind when people come across a suitable opportunity
for you.

As with so much in selling there is no such thing as luck in
networking. Luck is where preparation meets opportunities.

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